Posts Tagged ‘Nominative Determinism’
Brisbane’s oldest swingers club forced to close
THERE is only one club for swingers in Brisbane, Australia. But Couples International has been ordered to shut. Why? Because it failed to offer appropriate disabled access.
The club’s owners say:
“We’ve got single ladies that are crying . . . I mean, we’re talking a 20-year-old single lady just crying here the other night because she’s got nowhere to go that feels safe anymore. They go to nightclubs, they get touched up by guys. They try to dance on the dance floor and guys come up behind them and start grinding. Here, if anybody touches somebody without permission they’re evicted. We’ve never called the police here in 10 years. People think it’s going to be orgies everywhere but it’s not, it’s like a nightclub. It’s nothing like people think.”
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Nominative Determinism: Dr Unk arrested for drunk arriving
NOMINATIVE Determinism presents Dr Unk, the Delaware doctor accused of driving while drunk. Dr Unk, 38, was more than twice the legal limit.
Posted: 19th, May 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nominative determinism: Mr And Mrs Speed jailed for dealing amphetamines
NOMINATIVE Determinism takes us to Nottingham Crown Court to see a couple sentenced to two-and-a-half years choky for possessing amphetamines with intent to supply. Daniel, 36, and Abigail Speed did not blame fate for their lot.
Boys find Big Foot in Massachusetts woods
CAN a place be a victim of nominative determinism? We ask in light of a discovery in Quincy, Massachusetts. Quincy was the TV based on the investigations of Quincy ME, a pre-CSI Los Angeles County medical examiner. We need him now to take look at what two boys found in the woods around Quincy.
Sgt. Steven Leanues says it looks like a festering foot.
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Posted: 22nd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Nominative determinism: BBC weather presenter Sara Blizzard
NOMINATIVE determinism of the day is Coventry-born is a weather presenter for East Midlands Today Sara Blizzard.
Posted: 8th, April 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Nominative determinism: Mr Dick guilty of exposing himself in public
“The first cleaner said she had looked through the window and saw the man. She maintained eye contact for around five seconds before she dropped her mop in shock.”
In the dock stands a man guilty of outraging public decency in a public place. He has admitted to the offence. At first, he claimed to have been applying
cream to a genital wart, which he showed police officers interviewing him. Once before, in May 2005, this man was caught applying cream to a genital wart. A student saw him allegedly applying the unguent as he sat in his car.
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Man alerted to dog poo menace tripped and fell on wife
TODAY’S example of Nominative Determinism, the phenomenon whereby human beings’ lives are shaped by their names, features Lincolnshire couple Michael and Anna Webster. Each slipped and fell because of dog poo. They both fell while walking along Old School Mews in Spilsby.
He says:
“My wife pointed towards some you know what on the footpath, I turned to look where she was pointing, missed the step, tripped and fell on her, she broke her arm, I fractured my wrist and landed on my ribs. It was partially my fault that I had fallen over and it was very unfortunate that I landed on my wife but my attention had been diverted because of the dog mess.”
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Nominative determinism: the reduced Mr Bump Easter Egg
EASTER egg of the day: the Mr Bump:
Spotter: @mrlukerobinson
Posted: 8th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Nominative determinism: Martin M. Looney on guns
NOMINATIVE determinism: The Senate Majority Leader, co-chairman of the Gun Violence Prevention Working Group, is called Martin M. Looney.
Takes one to know one…
Posted: 30th, January 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Newsreader falls into canal while texting… and it’s on video!
CCTV footage has emerged, capturing a local newsreader falling arse-over-tit into a frozen canal after being distracted by her phone.
Laura Safe (raises eyebrows at the nominative determinism) works for Capital FM Birmingham, and was sending her boyfriend a text when she failed to look up and found herself immersed in dirty, freezing water. She’s probably got polio now or something, but it is still funny.
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Posted: 25th, January 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
Nominative determinism: model Ivana Vancova
NOMINATIVE determism of the year is the sight of supermodel Ivana Vancova:
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Posted: 13th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Mug shot of the day: Ginger Bush
MUG Shot of the day is a possible nominative determinism of the day. It’s Ginger Bush:
Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Parents name their child Hashtag Jameson
A COUPLE – the Twitters? – have named their newborn child Hashtag Jameson. The chid was born last Saturday evening.
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Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Nominative determinism: Jim Hall writes about PE Lessons
NOMINATIVE determinism: The author of PE Lesson Plans Year 1: Photocopiable Gymnastic Activities, Dance and Games Teaching Programmes, PE Lesson Plans Year 2: Photocopiable Gymnastic Activities, Dance and Games Teaching Programmes, PE Lesson Plans Year 3: Photocopiable Gymnastic Activities, Dance and Games Teaching Programmes and so on is called Jim Hall.
Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Bird poos on TV news reporter Paul Robins
HERE’S Fox40 Sacramento newsman Paul Robins getting pooed on by a bird. (A pigeon? Has to be. And Robins – more nominative determinism?) His co-star Bethany Crouch is understandably amused. Still, the bird could have been more creative:
Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Mr Fox gets work as human scarecrow in Norfolk
JAMIE Fox is using skills acquired studying English and music at Bangor University to work as a human scarecrow for farmer William Youngs.
Fox, 22, scares crows with a ukulele, accordion and cowbell. After the crows have been vanquished, he can buy a hat and get a job on the London Underground playing to trapped audiences.
But why bother busking with menaces? The BBC says Fox earns £250 as a scarecrow working a 10-acre rape seed plot in Aylsham, Norfolk.
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Michael Jackson guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting children in Birmingham
IT might be a case of nominative determinism. Michael Jackson, 50, has been found guilty in Birmingham Crown Court of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a boy and a girl, both aged 10.
Jackson changed his name from Albert England.
Why? Well, Jimmy Savile never was much of a dancer…
Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
Maryland police erect CCTV cameras to watch CTV cameras
TO Maryland, where CCTV cameras are being erected to watch CCTV cameras. CCTV camera vandals are thought to be operating in the area.
Prince George’s County Police Maj. Robert V. Liberati outlines the dream:
“It’s not worth going to jail over a $40 ticket or an arson or destruction of property charge.”
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Posted: 15th, September 2012 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Nominative determinism: consultant Dangli Wang
MR Dangli Wang works for NCS in Singapore.
More nominative determinism when we see it…
Posted: 9th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Circumcision might be a laughing matter for Dr Wang
CIRCUMCISION is a hot topic of debate just now. In Indonesia, it’s a mass participation event. One slip and you can lose your penis. In Mexico, it’s a name. It can save the planet. Nazis hate it – as ever they did. Foreskin Man will save you and your keep your todger intact. Some people use garden shears. Russell Crowe says Jews, Muslims and other popels who circumcise their sons are “barbaric and stupid“.
On the BBC, the debate is heating up. It’s serious stuff. So. Here’s a doctor to help you make sense of it in an adult way:
“You are doing a procedure on someone who cannot make a decision for himself – it’s a difficult choice for both parents and physicians,” says Dr Marvin Wang, co-director of the Newborn Nurseries at Massachusetts General Hospital, who has conducted hundreds of circumcisions.”
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Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Jackmeoff Mudd arrested in Florida
TO South Florida in seach of nominative determinism – and finding a man arrested last Friday in Fort Lauderdale. Meet Jackmeoff Mudd.
Jackmeoff has been charged with assault, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, possession of alcohol in an open container, and violation of probation.
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Posted: 19th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
London 2012 name of the name: horse riding is for Rich Fellers
RICH Fellers is a horse rider for Team USA at the London 2012 Olympics. Horse riding is, after all, a sport for Rich Fellers. More nominative determinism when you spot it:
Spotter: RosieT
Vania Stambolova falls at London 2012 Olympics: nominative determinism
Woman falls over in the 400m hurdles & doesn’t finish. Look at her name. You couldn’t make it up…
She never stood a chance:
Mr Stoner arrested for marijuana possession
NOMINATIVE determinism of the day features Jessie Stoner. When police stopped his truck for having a broken brake light, they found marijuana and a dead 4-foot alligator in his tool box.
Stoner has been charged with misdemeanor counts of drug possession and – get this – taking an alligator without a permit.
Posted: 5th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
